Madame Giry's rant
22 January 2023 12:09 amI was listening to the original London cast recording of "Love Never Dies" again tonight, and thinking all over again that a lot (if not most) of the changes for the 'Australian Version' were not actually an improvement (I still begrudge the loss in the bar scene of the exchange "Do you know where you are?"/"Hell, I imagine", and his horrified realisation after the bet "My God -- what have I done?"). ( Changes to the beginning of the show )
But one thing that *definitely* needed to go was Madame Giry's whole rant "You think I took the boy? Why would I do such a thing? Do you think I don't know who he is? [...] Do you think I don't know it hurts to see one's own child brought to harm?"
Because the fact that she knows these things is *precisely* what makes her the prime suspect at that moment, so trotting them out as proof of her innocence makes no sense at all :-p
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But one thing that *definitely* needed to go was Madame Giry's whole rant "You think I took the boy? Why would I do such a thing? Do you think I don't know who he is? [...] Do you think I don't know it hurts to see one's own child brought to harm?"
Because the fact that she knows these things is *precisely* what makes her the prime suspect at that moment, so trotting them out as proof of her innocence makes no sense at all :-p
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